10 Star Trek Toys That We Loved

Star Trek has a chequered history when it comes to video games. Moreover, a video game might not count as a toy per se, but, as it says in the holodeck safety manual, near as makes no difference! There might be quite a few pretty terrible Trek games out there, but then there are also a whole legendary heap of them, now desperately bereft of a CD Drive. You can also check out TrekCulture's review of the '10 Best Star Trek Video Games' here.

There are certainly many among us who whiled away an almost indecent amount of their youth reinforcing shields and performing high energy turns in Star Trek: Starfleet Command. Perhaps you even shared the keyboard with a friend — one of you taking the helm, the other, tactical. The gamut of contemporary Starfleet ships introduced in the game's third edition — including Akira, Defiant, Intrepid, Galaxy, Nebula, and Sovereign-classes — was also something to behold. Starfleet Command has equally kept fresh well beyond its shelf life through mods and the 2016 gold edition.

For this writer, it was equally all about Star Trek: Armada I & II (with a preference for II), Star Trek: Voyager: Elite Force (with expansion), Star Trek: Elite Force II, and Star Trek: Bridge Commander. To single out Elite Force in particular, the second managed to be as thrilling as the first — opening as Voyager was still inside the Borg sphere on its way back to the Alpha Quadrant and then continuing aboard the Enterprise-E.